For the past several months, millions of Americans have had their spirits boosted by a young librarian, Mychal Threets. Mychal is the supervising librarian at Fairfield Civic Center Library in Solano County, Calif., and he became social media (and general media) famous for sharing snippets of his life as a librarian on various platforms. Mychal …
I entered 2023 with a profound fear of dying early. I was turning 50 in January—the same age that my mother was when she died (and not even a week after that birthday, no less). Six weeks before her death, I had just turned 31. For 19 years, I lived with this overwhelming fear of …
If you’ve followed me on other platforms or social media, you might already know this. But if not: I’m one of the shrinking numbers of people who haven’t gotten COVID yet. It’s not because I have some sort of wondrous immune system. No, I got sick plenty over the years when my kids were in …